Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead, it's about becoming more fully human.

Meditation is not about getting away from it all. It's about getting into it all.

Happiness is found in the simplest of things. It is not in the things you own, but in the love you share.

The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

The restraint of the senses is not a matter of suppression but of wise attention to our experience.

Every step on the path must be with the understanding of anicca - impermanence. This is the essence of the teaching.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. This will give your mind a steadiness and your life a balance.

Metta (loving-kindness) becomes truly effective only when it arises from a peaceful mind, a pure mind, a balanced mind.

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The most important things in our practice are our physical posture and our way of breathing.

The more clearly you see the arising and passing of phenomena, the less you will be attached to them.

The mind is like a room with many windows. Open them all and let the fresh air in.

The perfect moment is this one, not the one you're waiting for.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be miserable, expect something in return.

Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

In meditation, we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen. I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of the desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring wood: all these I do in Zen.

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

The obstacle is the path.

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.